>- 64-bit is alleged to be a little slower and use more memory
> per-process compared to 32-bit.
+1. I would have presumed that a large chunk of BitFolk's customer
base are hobbyist's, developers and small businesses who are at the
lower end of the RAM range. Admittedly we shouldn't make it too hard
for Andy to drum up new business (as with success potentially comes
more free upgrades), but for other suppliers I have dealt with who
support both, I have been very particular that I wanted 32bit for the
reasons we are discussing.
> Even if I had a 2G RAM server, I'd still want a 32-bit system.
+1. Unless you are in spitting distance of the 32bit limit, I would
prefer to stick to 32bit.
>> >A future memory upgrade (not planned as to when) will obviously push
>> >more people into the space where>2G RAM per process would be
>> >beneficial, so I will consider switching to only 64-bit by that
>> >time. Will anyone be terribly upset to leave 32-bit behind?
Upset, a little; no where near jumping ship (as BitFolk has always
exceeded expectations) but would prefer to keep the 32bit option (if
possible). Is it not possible to boot a 32bit Dom1 kernel from a 64bit
Dom0? Or is the overhead of maintaining the two sets of bootstraps?
~Mat
Hello,
As you may be aware, BitFolk currently doesn't support 64-bit
guests. The reasons for this are:
- 64-bit is alleged to be a little slower and use more memory
per-process compared to 32-bit.
- 99.04% of BitFolk customers have less than 2GiB addressable RAM.
- Supporting only 32-bit or only 64-bit is a bit simpler.
We do, however occasionally lose custom due to not supporting 64-bit
guests.
A future memory upgrade (not planned as to when) will obviously push
more people into the space where >2G RAM per process would be
beneficial, so I will consider switching to only 64-bit by that
time. Will anyone be terribly upset to leave 32-bit behind?
To clarify I am saying that after that point new installs would have
to be 64-bit. Existing 32-bit installs would be unaffected.
Also if you have a requirement for 64-bit it would be appreciated if
you could vote for:
https://tools.bitfolk.com/redmine/issues/27
Cheers,
Andy
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Hi Peet,
On Mon, Jun 04, 2012 at 10:29:35AM +0200, Peet Grobler wrote:
> Thank you for your decent, very verbose explanations of what is going wrong. I believe this distills trust in your clients. First off, we know you know what you're doing. Second - we are informed of problems, with much detail, and along the process of fixing it we are informed of what you've done so far, and what to expect.
Thanks to you and others who have commented. Especially those who
were affected, for your understanding.
Thanks must also go to Miah Gregory who was present in our IRC
channel and offered advice on how to best recover, for several
hours. I was on basically the right track but Miah's advice sped
things up quite a bit.
Anyway this is not the last word on this matter of course. I'm still
working on a plan of action and I will get back to you in due
course. This is going to include service credit for those who were
affected, as the data loss (even minor as it appears to have been)
that arose from this sort of event was completely unacceptable and
should be avoidable.
> I assume you don't back up the VPSes? It's the customer's responsibility? I have no problem with this, just wondering.
That is correct. We do offer to run backups for people for free,
except for the disk space required to keep them in:
http://bitfolk.com/customer_information.html#toc_2_Local_backups
Naturally I would urge everyone to have some sort of backup regime
as calamities such as human error, multiple simultaneous disk
failure, datacentre fires, natural disasters, etc. do happen.
Cheers,
Andy
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Hi,
We're experiencing widespread network problems, including a DDoS and
also a possible hardware failure on barbar, all at the same time.
I am investigating and will let you know more as soon as I can.
Apologies for the disruption.
Cheers,
Andy
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Hello,
If you're a customer running Debian or Ubuntu then you're most
likely making use of our apt-cacher. The apt-cacher is quite an old
version, has a few small problems, and doesn't support IPv6.
I'm looking to replace it with apt-cacher-ng but I'd like to test it
some more first.
If you'd like to help test it, please could you replace any instance
of "apt-cacher" in your /etc/apt/sources.list with "test-cacher"?
e.g.
deb http://apt-cacher.lon.bitfolk.com/debian/ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main
becomes:
deb http://test-cacher.lon.bitfolk.com/debian/ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main
No need to let me know if it works for you, only if it doesn't work
for you. :)
Thanks,
Andy
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"I remember the first time I made love. Perhaps it was not love exactly but I
made it and it still works." -- The League Against Tedium
I would like to set up a VPN, for mostly hobby rather
than commercial reasons so being Scottish, I'm trying to find the Low/No
cost solution.
For reference, the set up document I have been looking at is
http://forums.bit-tech.net/showthread.php?t=132029 .
Now first question, in /etc/pptpd.conf we have a line similar to
remoteip 172.198.2.50-51
If my understanding is correct, this refers to the "external IP's" that my
VPS at bitfolk would be assigning to the client devices, so being Scottish,
and as I say, being a low budget little project, is there a way of setting
up a VPS using just a single IP, or what costs are involved
in acquiring a handful of IP's?
Secondly, Ill quickly summarise my objectives here so you can let me know
just how wrong a tree I'm barking up by taking the VPN path :)
Purpose 1 : To allow me to connect safely to insecure networks using
android tablets/phones (2.2,2.3,4), and a dual boot laptop (ubuntu/win7)
and just for shits and giggles probably my old windows mobile collection
(3,5,6).
Purpose 2 : My ISP quite frequently has difficulty with its routing to the
North American RIFT Servers... but never to me good old VPS,
so I'm thinking in these occasions it may provide a (possibly somewhat
imperfect) bypass to that problem when it happens.
Purpose 3 : Minecraft Pocket Edition. I introduced my nephew to minecraft
on his Archos tablet, unlike the desktop versions, it only supports LAN
games... Im thinking if it was on the same VPN as me, it would probably
let us play a LAN game together, even with him being in Aberdeen, and me
being on Skye?
All input and suggestions are welcome.
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Hi,
Thank you for you help with choosing a domain registrar. I went with Gandi I'm the end and they seem great.
I've bought my first domains and I'm just about to begin configuring services on my VPS. This is the first time I've run a server facing the public internet.
I'd really appreciate any guidance on the best way to set up the following so that it's competent, reliable and doesn't get pwned. I want to be a good net citizen.
*BIND
*Incoming mail
*A POP3/IMAP server for my client.
*An SMTP server for my client to send to.
*Webmail for on-the-road access to my mail. (my existing provider uses Open.Exchange and I like it but I'm also happy to consider other recommendations)
Thanks,
Paul.
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Hi,
I'm looking to configure my VPS to send email (e.g. welcoming new
users, informing them that someone has replied to their message, etc).
Does Bitfolk have an SMTP server that I could use for this? Or should
I use Google SMTP server?
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Phil Hunt, <cabalamat(a)gmail.com>
Hi,
A large number of DNS "recovery" alerts were just sent out for
domains hosted on c.authns.bitfolk.com. Apologies, they were sent in
error.
The hosting provider for c.authns was doing some work last night so
I disabled alerts. Unfortunately I disabled them while the host was
offline and Nagios didn't check again until I re-enabled them just now,
which resulted in a flood of "recovery" alerts. In reality the host
was only down for a short time.
Sorry for any confusion this may have caused.
Cheers,
Andy
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I have just moved from Lenny to Squeeze. I did it the cowards way by
shifting from one VPS to another, taking up Bitfolk's 2 weeks offer. It all
went extremely well except for one problem that I have just solved after
hours searching logs, uninstalling and reinstalling etc. Thought I ought to
post it here in case anyone else hits the same problem. (When I have done
my other VPS I'll add this to the Wiki)
I found that I could not get rndc to work. This led to very intermittent
failure to allow transfers to slave servers. I had all the correct
permissions and keys and everything in the right place. I had iptables set
up to allow input on lo and from 127.0.0.1. In the end, I had to set up an
explicit rule in iptables to allow input from 127.0.0.1 to 127.0.0.1 port
953. Never saw this on lenny nor on an "offsite" squeeze machine. I can't
understand why this time it needed that one explicit rule. Anyway, all's
well that ends well and it is now all working perfectly
Keith
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